[SunkenCiv]

Excavations at New Guinea's Waim site began in 2016 after local residents discovered these stone artifacts. The finds included mortars, pestles, carved faces and club heads. [B. Shaw]

[Bob Ireland]

***corresponding cultural changes, such as living in villages and making elaborate ritual and symbolic objects, have often been assumed to have emerged only when Lapita farmers from Southeast Asia reached New Guinea around 3,000 years ago***

It is difficult to pinpoint a start of the cultural exchange due to repeated shelter-in-place orders resulting from Asian coronavirus epidemic scares. The first suspected known travel ban was due to Covid-.000219.

[Inyo-Mono]

Thanks SunkenCiv,

Very interesting article, sick of corona virus articles. My late Father was stationed in New Guinea during WWII and always wanted to go back and visit because he found the primitive culture so interesting. He said many natives there at the time had never met anyone from the outside World.